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Research & Insight

As the global leader in management accounting CIMA is committed to producing relevant, rigorous and applied research. We publish industry-leading insight, fund academic programmes, and collaborate with partners globally to help people and organisations drive better, sustainable business performance.

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  • Managing the Trust P&L: A toolkit for boards

    This toolkit offers board level professionals with a greater understanding of how trust fits into their business model. The tool helps board members and C-suite professionals to look at trust in a systematic way that relates to their organisation.

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  • CGMA Competency Framework guide: generate value for long-term success

    The CGMA Competency Framework can help you equip your finance function with skills and competencies needed for sustainable success. You can use the Competency Framework to fulfil many activities as you build the human capital of your organisation, with an emphasis on the following areas: Attraction and recruitment, Performance management, Learning and development.

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  • Purpose Beyond Profit: The Value of Value - Board-level Insights

    Deriving insights from a survey of executives across the globe, this report outlines trends and challenges in measuring, disclosing, and understanding the value that companies create. Executives globally agree on the increasing benefit of understanding and communicating the value creation potential of their organisations.

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  • Talent - Improving government performance through effective talent management

    Most local government organisations believe their talent-management strategies are well defined and that they have a solid understanding of their current skills shortages and future needs. However, almost half are struggling to compete for talent with their private-sector rivals. How do local governments Find, Retain, and Sustain talent?

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  • Sustainable Development Goals and the role of the accountant

    Business has a fundamental role to play in delivering against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requirements. Contributions will include working with stakeholders, creating jobs, enabling access to healthcare, innovating new technologies and leading the development and responsible use of resources like energy and water.

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  • Business Resilience: Tools for preparing to reopen businesses

    Reallocating priorities, creating a response plan, mapping out scenarios – here’s all you need to consider before you reopen your business and the tools to help you do it.

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  • Transformation - Improving government performance

    This joint report by CIMA and CIPFA (the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy) highlights case studies of transformation initiatives from around the world, identifying common barriers, such as, ‘doing more with less’, and the critical success factors which must be addressed.

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  • Six rules to delivering a powerful financial presentation

    Public speaking, the number one fear of most people, can be overcome. Analyse one of the key soft skills that accountants need to possess in order to engage stakeholders and help decision making.

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  • Keeping business clean: a CGMA guide to countering fraud and corruption

    This briefing report outlines recent developments and trends on fraud and corruption globally and the role of the management accountant in helping establish best practice in their organisation. It offers guidance to a range of resources and reading materials.

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  • CGMA Cybersecurity Tool

    Cybersecurity is one of the central issues and risks in today’s global economy. Cyber attacks are no longer a question of if, but a question of when.

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  • CGMA Business model global consultation

    Business models are often misunderstood and lack consistency. Most businesses use the term ‘business model’ but do not follow any particular processes or frameworks in order to create and manage them. Our work intends to change this.

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  • Cost Transformation Model

    The CGMA cost transformation model is designed to help businesses to achieve and maintain cost competitiveness.

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Tomorrow’s Risk Leadership: delivering risk resilience and business performance

Tomorrow’s Risk Leadership, a report from London-based think tank 'Tomorrow's Company', shows how companies should rethink their risk leadership.

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The future of ethics

To discuss the pressures faced by organisations and the subsequent CGMA report Managing Responsible Business – A global survey on business ethics, CIMA and AICPA held a webcast debate in association with The Accountant.

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What does it take to be a risk leader?

The risk landscape is constantly evolving and becoming more complex. Being able to identify and ‘manage’ all the risks to an organisation is no longer possible.

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Financial management in the governance of with-profits UK life insurers

This document looks at the use of PPFMs both internally and externally as well as the contribution of the PPFM framework to the overall corporate governance arrangements of with-profits funds of businesses.

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Who can you trust? Breaking the spell, how to build trust today

In honour of CIMA past president Anthony Howitt, a lecture took place on Wednesday 3 June 2015 on the topic of trust in organisations today.

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Are you ready for the open workforce?

In-house teams, contractors and external partners - the new open workforce.

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Finance transformation in the age of data

Adam Savage, ACMA, CGMA Senior Manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP discusses transformational change.

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New skills, existing talent

The new mandate for finance professionals in supporting long-term business success.

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Insight to impact unlocking opportunities in big data

‘From insight to impact - unlocking opportunities in big data' investigates how leading finance professionals are using data to drive commercial impact.

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Implementing an effective corporate ethics policy

Businesses that want to succeed in the long term have to reflect upon ethical challenges in their own operations. They must take action to avoid integrity risks.

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